Salem station (Oregon)

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Salem, OR
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General information
Location500 13th Street SE
Salem, Oregon
United States
Coordinates 44°55′56″N123°01′41″W / 44.93222°N 123.02806°W / 44.93222; -123.02806
Owned byState of Oregon
Line(s) Union Pacific Railroad
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks1
Connections Cascades POINT
Cherriots
Greyhound Lines
Shuttle Oregon
The Wave
Construction
Parking25 long term spaces
Bicycle facilitiesYes
AccessibleYes
Other information
Station code Amtrak: SLM
History
Opened1918;106 years ago (1918)
Rebuilt2000;24 years ago (2000)
Passengers
FY 202239,701 [1] (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station BSicon LOGO Amtrak2.svg Amtrak Following station
Albany
toward Eugene
Amtrak Cascades Oregon City
Albany
toward Los Angeles
Coast Starlight Portland
toward Seattle
Former services
Preceding station Southern Pacific Railroad Following station
Turner
toward Oakland Pier
Shasta Route Chemawa
toward Portland
Salem Southern Pacific Railroad Station
Salem Oregon train station night.JPG
A close up picture at night.
USA Oregon location map.svg
Red pog.svg
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Area2.7 acres (1.1 ha)
Built1918 (1918)
ArchitectChristie, J.H.; Stebinger Bros.
Architectural style Queen Anne, Beaux-Arts
NRHP reference No. 10000015 [2]
Added to NRHPFebruary 12, 2010
Location
Salem station (Oregon)

Salem station is an Amtrak train station in Salem, Oregon, United States. It is served by Amtrak Cascades corridor trains going to and from Portland, Oregon, as well as the long-distance Coast Starlight. Greyhound Lines and some regional buses also stop at the station.

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History

Trackside of Salem Depot Salem, Oregon Amtrak stop.png
Trackside of Salem Depot

This station was constructed for the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1918 and is the third station to be built at this location. [3] The two previous stations were built in 1871 and 1889. [4] The 1871 depot burned down in 1885. [4] It is commonly believed that the Queen Anne style 1889 depot burned down on March 5, 1917, [4] but newspaper reports from the time say it was unsightly and, except for the baggage wing, demolished. [5]

The current Beaux-Arts-style structure was designed by Southern Pacific's chief architect John H. Christie. [6] [7] It is constructed of masonry, and is one of five masonry depots that still exist along the original Southern Pacific West Coast line. The other depots are in Albany, Medford, Roseburg and Eugene. [8]

A restoration project by the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) was completed in 2000. [3] [9] Amtrak leases the station from ODOT for $1 a year, in exchange for maintenance of the building and grounds.[ citation needed ]

An 1889 Railway Express Agency (REA) freight depot/baggage shed from the previous station was kept and is the oldest freight depot still in existence in the state.[ citation needed ] Either after the 1917 fire or in preparation for constructing the new depot, the Queen Anne-style REA depot was relocated from its original site to the south. [4] [5] The REA depot had not been used since the mid-1970s, but ODOT restored it in the late 2000s for use by Greyhound. [10]

The station and baggage depot were added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 12, 2010. [11] In 2011, daily ridership on Amtrak between Salem and Portland reached 24,146 boardings. [12]

Greyhound Lines moved operations from its downtown station to here in 2013, first to the north wing of the station building and, upon completion of renovations in 2018, to the former freight shed. [13] [14] [15]

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